( Supplied: Michael Emery)Īs she described it herself, she had "returned to the Lion's den" and while the war felt a world away while she was in Tasmania, Hitler's troops had now closed in on Paris.īecause of her marriage to an Englishman, Edith and baby Michael were packed up and taken to a camp in the city of Besançon in the east of France. "There, less than a month after getting married, I found that I was pregnant," she writes in her autobiography.īut Edith's first time in Africa was short-lived and on the advice of medical staff in Sudan, she travelled to Paris to have her first son, Michael, in 1940, less than two years after leaving Vienna.Įdith Emery and her son Michael as a young boy.
He sailed to Tasmania, and the pair wed, with plans for both to travel back to Sudan. Edith was racked with guilt after promising to marry her Austrian love, Max, if he survived his time in Buchenwald.Īfter a period of emotional turmoil, particularly after discovering Max had indeed survived, she agreed to marry John. Less than a year into her time in Hobart, John proposed. A return to 'the Lion's den'Īfter meeting aboard the ship that took Edith to Tasmania, she and Englishman John Emery, who was catching a ride from Marseilles back to his posting in Sudan, exchanged letters for months on end, nurturing a long-distance romance. Her voyage to Australia, however, introduced her to her future husband and would ultimately delay her life in Australia, and bring her back into the grips of Hitler and the Second World War. "I would, of course, have gone anywhere to get away from the Nazis - and as an enthusiastic traveller would have found matters of interest but the fact was that Australia had never even crossed my mind," she wrote in her autobiography.
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"The drawings were a really powerful indicator for us that there was something here that needed to be understood and drawings, if you read them as an architect, you can see a lot of intelligence in a drawing," Mat told Tim Ross for ABC TV's Designing a Legacy.īut, as Mat and Poppy would discover, how Edith came to be designing houses in 1950s Australia is a tale that could fill the pages of a Hollywood movie script. The plans from 1958 were signed by Edith Emery - someone neither Poppy or Mat had ever heard of before, prompting them to look into the mystery designer. "And so we asked them and they said 'yeah we've got plans actually from the previous owner' and then they got these drawings out and we had a closer look and then it became clear that there really was some exceptional work done here." there's been an architect involved," Poppy recounts.
"Our first look at it we thought 'well, it feels like someone's had a hand in this', like. When architects Mat Hinds and Poppy Taylor were asked to design an extension for their friend's 1950s' Hobart home, something caught the pair's eye.
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